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“The Jewel
There is this cave
In the air behind my body
That nobody is going to touch:
A cloister, a silence
Closing around a blossom of fire.
When I stand upright in the wind,
My bones turn to dark emeralds.”
― The Branch Will Not Break
There is this cave
In the air behind my body
That nobody is going to touch:
A cloister, a silence
Closing around a blossom of fire.
When I stand upright in the wind,
My bones turn to dark emeralds.”
― The Branch Will Not Break
“...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.”
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“I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”
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Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”
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“Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom. ”
― Above the River: The Complete Poems
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom. ”
― Above the River: The Complete Poems
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